Loved DD1... hated this one as a kid. The kicks and punches BACKWARDS to the way you were facing was the dumbest thing I've ever experienced. Seemingly the developers agreed because in DD3 they went back to the old system.
Double Dragon II's story is surprisingly dark and tragic, especially for this era. There's no girl to save this time. She's dead and your kicking everyone's ass just because you're pissed off.
Let me get this right tho, the girl in the first game was messing around with both brothers? That's why you fight your bro at the endto see who gone lay the pipe afterwards. It seems she was messy cause she was with the two bros and she was hooking up with the plug himself that's why he had her kidnapped and you had to go fight for her and find her. Then in chapter two the plug came back and took her out permanently cause one he couldn't take a as whooping and let it go, two he was too drowned in the pussy so if he couldn't have her no one will...
@@isaacalvarez534 No that's not what was happening at all. Marian was with Billy, but Jimmy had feelings for her too which were not returned. She was kidnapped becasue the Black Warriors Boss wanted to learn the secrets of their martial arts style. It's really not hard to understand if you read a manual or two.
God that stage 2 music takes me back! My cousin and I once spent about $5 each out of Christmas money and beat this in an arcade. Felt like a fortune to spend but we did it!
I remember always seeing a large group crowded around one of these DDII arcade machines one summer when I was a kid. Turns out it would give away free lives each time you would bang the side of the casing by making one of those “Yah!” sound effects.
Yeah, the girl died in the beginning. The girl in the ending was supposed to be her, in a photograph. Unlike the NES version, she stayed dead. It's supposed to be sort of a tragedy, with a little bit of Eastern philosophy thrown in as you fight your dark, vengeful half.
It reminds me of that sayin: "Be careful whe ya fightin' against monsters, ya don't become a monster yaself. Also, be careful when ya stare at the darkeness, the darkness will stare back at ya".
Excelente arcade games, recuerdo mucho este videojuego, era uno de mis favoritos, ahora lo descargue por PlayStore y soy feliz jugando como si fuera en mi niñez jajaja buenos recuerdos 😬🕹️🔴⚪🔵
Si tienes la oportunidad de jugarlo en mame version reciente comprobaras que tiene nivel de dificultad hardest pruebalo y veras lo dificil que es terminarlo solo para masters
here in DD II these Punch-combo attacks are a lot 100% far more vicious and effective than its predecessor DD (1987)...nice BGM sound at the end in the still picture Thanks!
By far the best Double Dragon game in both the arcades, and of that era I.M.O.! I much preferred this to the N.E.S. version, which while was good in it's own right (along with having more to it in general), just had too much annoying platforming elements (along with the first to a lesser extent) to make more that, than of a pure beat em up fighting game. That of which made it very difficult to play with two people, and made that far less of a draw than it should have been as well. That and how you could only fight two enemies at once, with both of them always having to be the same character too.
That opening theme tune is uber fucking catchy!! It really helps get the blood flowing to prepare you to smash faces, crush skulls and just overall fuck up some bad dudes.
Every time you put a quarter in the arcade version or double dragon 2 The revenge sound like the voice of the great late Bruce Lee the greatest martial artists of all time especially since he master of the nunchucks when he break out the nunchucks you don't have a chance in hell
double dragon is on its last legs ..its themes of 80's postivism and groin kicking are running hollow in the go go 90s. maybe a laetner cut will soothe the old boy over ..
Damn, imagine getting to the end of stage 2 and trying not to laugh as Suspenders Schwarzenegger tries to beat the shit out of you in complete seriousness.
Nes was better in many ways yes. But i find the graphics and difficulty more appealing on arcade version, hence i said its the greatest. But i understand your comment, nes was much much more fun, more missions, flying awesome knee kicks hehe, and ofcourse the fact you could kick/punch people literally into the air, GREAT times indeed ... nes was kinda better yes :) PS: the dd trilogy on pc is a must have imo, NO LAG! .. walk as far as you can and see your screen fill with alot of enemies!.. awesome
Powbits Testpow Yeah I got that trilogy, but I have it for my smart phone and it plays pretty good. I already own the nes versions of dd2 and dd3 on some cheap handheld sold on amazon that feels cheap as hell, but plays fairly well. The arcade version of dd3 is horrible however.
DD3 arcade is terrible yes. The nes version is definitely the greatest dd3 out there :) Cool that you still have the physical hardware of the 80-90's .. great times.
Great game but I say the whole format when The Dragons defeat the Black Shadow Warrior and bring Marian back to life will always be the far better format. This version is great though. Just needs resurrection ending. Hail Double Dragon 2.
I don't get the ending though... Who's the crying blonde? The girl who gets killed in the beginning? Also wanted to say that this game has one of the best soundtracks ever!
+Anton Zandt The blonde is Marion aka Billy's girlfriend. She cried in the end because it was an homage to her death. She was not brought back to life like in the NES/PC Engine version.
+Terramorfo AV I always loved throwing fools off the side of the screen at the beginning of Level 3! Works in the original DD also...which means that this is basically an expansion of the code used in the first game :)
I played this a lot on the Amiga 500. Had an easier control scheme but they totally changed the music. It still sounded good and looked far better than the Amiga version of Double Dragon 1 though. The title screen music was amazing too.
Mmm as a kid I just thought it was cool you fought your own shadow, now as an adult I guess there is more meaning to it. After Billy defeats the boss again and he fulfills his revenge he is only left with complex feelings he must now struggle with. Now that the rage is gone he possibly feels guilt thinking he may not have done enough to protect her, or maybe he thinks the violence he used in the first game to rescue her is the reason she is dead now. But in the end he defeats his own shadow because he must realize that he is not the bad guy, he was not the one to take the first shot, the other guys are the ones who killed her and therefore her dead is really on them only. I'm not saying Billy comes clean out of the ordeal, but all he was doing really was just protecting her.
Who is the masked man and why he disappeared after defeated and how he grows back into his clothes? :) Used to be just to have fun playing this game. Now looking back at this game again there left so many question marks.
As a kid I thought it was kind of cool how this was basically a mirror image of the first one with mainly cosmetic changes, harvester instead of bridge etc (didn't know of course that its because it started out being developed as an upgrade rather than sequel). Spend the next 30 years complaining about lazy game developers who do the same :).
Figa l"animazione dei personaggi quando vengono picchiati i soldi che ho buttato giocando al bar arrivavo massimo al secondo livello,poi finivano i soldi
+Azzen Daar (Guitch5) i downloaded this on my phone today it was the trilogy which also included double dragon and double dragon 3 that final boss on double dragon 2 is a pain in the arse hitting him isnt a problem for me i just hate it when he disappears and uses his black hole to paralyze u so he can attack u i just beat the final boss but i hate him so much
Here's how the music converted between the Arcade and NES versions: Arcade Level 1 = NES Level 2 Arcade Boss Theme 1 = NES Level 7 Arcade Level 2 = NES Level 1 Arcade Boss Theme 2 = NES standard boss theme Arcade Level 3 = NES Level 5 Arcade Boss Theme 3 = Not in NES Arcade Level 4 = NES Level 8 Arcade Willy Theme = NES Level 5 boss theme Arcade Final Boss Theme = NES Level 6 (highly remixed) NES Level 3 = Not in Arcade NES Level 4 = Not in Arcade NES Clone Battle Theme = Not in Arcade NES Final Battle Themes = Not in Arcade
At the time, I didn't like the NES version to be that different, but now I see the NES version of DD2 is a way better/funnier game than the arcade conterpart.
persona83 A lot of Nintendo games seem to have good quality & enjoyable gameplay, I guess it's logical to strive for that if you're trying to sell it to people to play on their home consoles, arcade games mostly seem very difficult, probably to keep taking money off you
Yeah, sure. But the case is that most home consoles had totally different versions of well known arcade games, back in the day and that was very frustrating because I wanted the very same game on my home system. There are tons of examples, but even the most faithful NES games based on arcades (like, say, Spartan X/Kung Fu Master or Trojan) were very similar to the coin ops without being as difficult. In other words: they could have made similar games but with toned down difficult, so the children would not get frustrated of so. At least to me, at the time, it was very disappointing to have a completly different game from the beloved arcades I was used to, even if the home port was obviously better (Double Dragon II case). It simply had to be identical. :P
It's got three 8-Bit CPUs (Hitachi 6309 & 2x Zillog Z80), but that don't really matter the Intellivision was the first 16-bit home console while looking like crap compared to the 16-Bit consoles like the Mega Drive or SNES. Arcade graphics of this era are designed differently from consoles.
Double Dragon 2 is more Renegade then double Dragon. Double Dragon is one of the best fighting games ever. Double Dragon 2 has not the high Level compair to double Dragon.
